Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 15
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 15 “But the only way to force out that kind of demon is by praying and fasting. ” 4 Is it possible that in the presence of such texts in the Gospels, the sharia be called a curse? The fact is that when the Christians declare the sharia to be a curse, they really mean that the authority of religion over the organization of a country is a curse. To them, religion has no control over affairs of the world; rather, a country can itself come up with rules and regulations of its own choice. Thus, they did away with restrictions imposed by the Mosaic sharia related to affairs of the state. No doubt, when ‘ I sa as (Jesus Christ) uttered these words (assuming that he did indeed say so), he did not mean what they attribute to him. On the contrary, he meant that the Jews gave greater importance to injunctions than to the inner self and spirituality, and this became a curse for them and pushed them far away from truth. When Christianity spread in Rome, people were not willing to relinquish their national constitution. They considered Roman law superior to every other law, in fact, European governments still benefit from Roman law. Therefore, the people of that time, who were very enlightened and possessed remarkable legal acumen, presumed that no one else could frame a better law than those. They acknowledged the goodness in the teachings of Christianity related to the 4 Matthew 17:21. North India Bible Society Mirza Pur, 1870.